Mark Edmonds
Senior Software Engineer, ML Robotics at Center for AI and Robot Autonomy (CARA)
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolMark Edmonds is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in ML-driven robotics with 12 years of experience translating research-grade ideas into real-world systems at the intersection of imitation learning, planning, and embodied AI. Currently at Cruise, he focuses on imitation learning and planning for autonomous systems while also leading the nonprofit Center for AI and Robot Autonomy to advance mission-driven robotics research and education. His PhD work at UCLA spanned imitation learning, causal and explainable AI, and language-grounded representation learning, including building UE4 environments coupling vision and scene-graph language for transferable representations. A pragmatic builder with roots in academia and industry, he has a track record of shipping performance gains (e.g., 100x CUDA speedups in cognitive modeling) and teaching engineers and students as an adjunct professor and TA. Based in Los Angeles, he combines deep technical rigor with a clear ethic: applying AI to make basic needs affordable and support a healthy biosphere.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Magna Cum Laude at University of DaytonDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (144)
text-to-image10
prettify10
google-identity10
beautify9
inpainting9
api8
vim8
sublime8
redux8
editing8
neko8
vim-plugin7
lime7
diffusion-models7
launcher7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mjedmonds/OS-X-Internet-No-Sleep
Jun 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 2 pushes in 8 months
mjedmonds/mjedmonds.github.io
Jul 2015 - Mar 2025
Website for mjedmonds.com
Contributions:1 PR, 276 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 10 months
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